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Cities in Transition
The EUROCITIES Knowledge Society Forum (KSF) and the Green Digital Charter (GDC) jointly hosted the conference ‘Cities in transition – the role of digital in shaping our future cities’ on 25 January 2017. The event, held in the Microsoft Innovation…
Report: Electric Cars in Pole Position to Dominate Green Car Market
Electric cars are set to dominate the fast-expanding ultra-low emission vehicle (ULEV) market in the coming decades, with hydrogen vehicles unlikely to play a major role prior to 2050. That is the conclusion of a new update from the UK’s…
EU Hails Clean Energy ‘Year of Delivery’
The European Union is on track to meet its renewable energy, energy efficiency, and greenhouse gas emission targets for 2020 following a ‘year of delivery’ across the renewables sector, according to a wide-ranging new report from the European Commission. The…
World’s Most Powerful Wind Turbine Breaks 24-Hour Record for Energy Generation
Anyone who still thinks wind power is just a load of hot air obviously hasn’t been paying attention. Witness the V164, a prototype wind turbine that Denmark’s MHI Vestas Offshore tested at Østerild at the close of 2016. With a…
World Wetlands Day – 2. February
2nd February each year is World Wetlands Day. This day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2. February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Each year…
A Step Toward Renewable Diesel
MIT engineers have genetically reprogrammed a strain of yeast so that it converts sugars to fats much more efficiently, an advance that could make possible the renewable production of high-energy fuels such as diesel. The researchers, led by Gregory Stephanopoulos,…
Hangzhou Fengling Finishes 200 MW Solar-Aquaculture Project
The developer connected the massive installation to the grid earlier this month in eastern China, roughly 150 kilometres south of Shanghai. The panels were mounted on piles above the surface of the Changhe and Zhouxiang reservoirs in Cixi, Zhejiang province.…